PLA’s Ambitions as Seen Through China’s Space Development Program
“China will complete its own space station by 2020 and build a base on the moon by 2030. Its objective is to control the air space between the moon and the earth and thereby gain a military advanta…
The True Nature of South Korea’s Internal War and Japan’s National Interests
[Editor’s note: The original article was written before reports that Jang had not only been purged, but executed.] With the purge of Jang Sung-Taek, Vice Chairman of North Korea’s National Defense…
Why This Vacillating Foreign Policy from Washington?
We should be concerned with the current state of US foreign policy. The very nation that has shaped and maintained the post-war international order now appears to be uncertain and indecisive in its…
Dalai Lama Assumes New Posture towards Xi Jinping
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, visited Japan November 15-26, speaking to a cross section of people in a number of cities across both the central and western…
New Technology Will Dispel Former Premier’s Nuclear Worries
“Japan should immediately adopt a zero nuclear policy…The existing nuclear fuel recycling project must now be discarded!” So declared former Prime Minister Shinichiro Koizumi on November 12th …